Kavli Affiliate: Patricia Janak | Authors: Huijeong Jeong, Leo Zsembik, Farah Farouq, Risha Chakraborty, Nishita Belur, Mingkang Zhou, Andrea D. Sanders, Styra X. Wang, Ananya Srinivasan, Sylvia M. L. Cox, Eric Garr, Sara Brooke, Patricia H. Janak, Marco Leyton, Ritchie Chen and Vijay Mohan K. Namboodiri | Summary: Erasing outdated memories is crucial for adaptive […]
Kavli Affiliate: Laura Schaefer | Summary:With recent advances in exoplanet observational techniques enabling the discovery of increasingly smaller planets, a crucial question emerges in the search for habitable planets: how small can a planet be and still maintain an atmosphere? We present results from the Smaller Than Earth Habitability Model (STEHM) which examines how small […]
Kavli Affiliate: Robert Cameron | Summary:Solar prominences are cool and dense plasma structures floating in the hot solar corona. They are ubiquitous features in the solar atmosphere, but their formation mechanism is still unclear. Here we perform comprehensive fully three-dimensional numerical simulations of prominence formation including the physics necessary to describe all atmospheric layers of […]
Kavli Affiliate: Laura Schaefer | Summary:JWST has opened a new era in the study of rocky exoplanets, enabling direct characterization of their surfaces with mid-infrared spectroscopy. Different types of rock have distinct spectral features that are diagnostic of the chemical composition and other physical properties like surface texture. Measurements of these features can provide valuable […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mark Vogelsberger | Summary:In the hierarchical paradigm of galaxy formation, central massive black holes (MBHs) are expected to coalesce after the merger of their host galaxies. One of the main goals of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is to constrain the origin and growth of MBHs through their merger rates and mass […]
Kavli Affiliate: Terrence Sejnowski | Authors: Margot Wagner, Yusi Chen, Arjun Karuvally, Mia Cameron and Terrence J Sejnowski | Summary: The hippocampus must balance stable memory representations with internally generated sequential dynamics underlying replay and prediction. How hippocampal circuitry achieves both remains unclear. Here, we show that recurrent neural networks trained on prediction tasks converge […]
Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao| Summary:Autonomous agents act through sandboxed containers and microVMs whose state spans filesystems, processes, and runtime artifacts. Checkpoint and restore (C/R) of this state is needed for fault tolerance, spot execution, RL rollout branching, and safe rollback-yet existing approaches fall into two extremes: application-level recovery preserves chat history but misses OS-side effects, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Young-kee Kim | Summary:DAMSA (DArk Messenger Searches at an Accelerator) is a novel short-baseline accelerator/beam dump experiment aimed at probing short-lived physics processes, including searches for evidence of a dark sector of particle physics and well-motivated rare Standard Model signals. Motivated by open questions in neutrino physics and the absence of conclusive evidence […]
Kavli Affiliate: Daniel Holz | Summary:Finding the host galaxies of stellar-mass compact binary mergers will open a new window for studying their formation histories and measuring key cosmological parameters, such as the Hubble constant. To date, only one merger, GW170817, has had its host galaxy confidently identified through electromagnetic counterpart observations. The large localization volumes […]
Kavli Affiliate: Scott Small | Authors: Angel G Rivera-Colón, Scott T Small, Erin Jezuit, John P Wares and Andrew D Kern | Summary: Population size is a key factor underlying the mode and tempo of evolution, particularly as it relates to the strength of selection and drift. While the mechanisms underlying the interactions between population […]